Halo 2600

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Did a search, was surprised to find there's no thread (unless I missed it, apologies if so).

So this is really cool. Ed Fries, late of Microsoft, got the blessing from his old employer to cook up this awesome piece of homebrew - Halo for the Atari 2600. He's at Classic Gaming Expo in Las Vegas this weekend selling a very limited edition of I think about 500 copies, sure to become a collectors item! I have already bagged mine

For the rest of you, a Flash emulation of the game is available at:http://halo2600.com/ (site appears to be tempoarily down)

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That's awesome, and the game is fun too... simple Atari-style stuff, and pretty well done. It is annoying that enemies can shoot all directions but you can only shoot left and right, but oh well. At least enemies don't respawn after you kill all the enemies in a room, which is great. Nice challenge and fun gameplay too.

Art style sucks, it's just a repeat of the same corridor over and over.

Actually, there are four areas to the game, each with different colors, obstacles, and enemies, so it doesn't all look the same. Then you win and gives you the choice to replay the game in Legendary difficulty.

It isn't an endless game like many Atari games were, instead it's short like most Atari games that actually had endings were, but it's fun and has challenge for sure, so that's alright. I tried a few times, haven't gotten through area two yet.